Custom EPiServer CMS Property

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I'm looking to create a custom CMS property and that saves values to the Commerce DB instead of the CMS DB. The values would have to be parsed to save the data accordingly. For example:

USA=Estados Unidos,
BGR=Bielorrusia

Is this possible to create a custom property to parse this and save it to a newly created business foundation object?

#70652
Apr 24, 2013 16:25
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Hi!

Why do you want to save the data for your CMS property in a Commerce object instead of the actual CMS object? What is it that you are trying to achieve?

#70656
Apr 25, 2013 7:40
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Yes I want to save it as a Commerce object instead of a CMS object. After doing more research on the issue, I see that there is a CountryDto and a CountryManager. Is there a way to extend these classes and to accomodate country name translations?

#70678
Apr 25, 2013 18:55
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Hi!

Though you can do pretty much anything in a custom property I have never heard about someone doing something like this. The reason for this is that a custom property is just a piece of code that handles a bit of data. It does not know much about the parent object or it's life cycle. The normal aproach when dealing with other systems is to make a property that holds a reference to an object stored elsewhere, but not to actually create and manage this object.

If you need to do this I would probably add an event handler to the parent object (for instance a page) and make sure that I update the external system (for instance Commerce) whenever the object is being published.

#70682
Apr 26, 2013 7:28
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I agree, hooking up on for example SavingPage or SavedPage event seems a bit more kosher

#70685
Apr 26, 2013 9:03
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Cool. Thanks for the explanation. It makes a lot more sense.

#70695
Apr 26, 2013 13:30
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Quick update:

I've tried what you suggested and it works so far. The question I have now is where is the SavingPage or SavedPage method? I only see SaveData method and I don't think I'm suppose to be using this to save/merge changes to the DB.

#70764
Apr 29, 2013 17:39
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Check out the PublishingContent event on DataFactory.Instance. You can also fetch out the registered instance for the interface "IContentEvents" if you want to work with the IOC container for testability.

#70765
Apr 29, 2013 17:50
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So I would have to modify the save method in the PageType that uses the custom property? There isn't a way to do this in the custom property itself?

I'm sorry for importuning you guys with questions. I'm still new to EPiServer and still learning the EPiServer system.

#70766
Apr 29, 2013 18:44
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